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All the sabots of the family were beneath the sideboard.
Then, after having placed a kettle on the grate, she sat down before the sideboard.
Besides the sideboard of varnished deal the furniture consisted of a table and chairs of the same wood.
Stuck on to the walls were some violently-coloured prints, portraits of the emperor and the empress, given by the Company, of soldiers and of saints speckled with gold, contrasting crudely with the simple nudity of the room; and there was no other ornament except a box of rose-coloured pasteboard on the sideboard, and the clock with its daubed face and loud tick-tack, which seemed to fill the emptiness of the place.
Catherine, in front of the sideboard, was reflecting.
Each took his sabots from under the sideboard, passed the strings of his tin over his shoulder and placed his brick at his back, between shirt and jacket.
In other respects it exhibited no luxury; a large table, chairs, a mahogany sideboard; only two deep easy-chairs betrayed a love of comfort, long happy hours of digestion.
Although everything was in order in her house, and she scrubbed every Saturday, she glanced with a jealous housekeeper's eye over this clean room, in which there was even a certain coquetry, gilt vases on the sideboard, a mirror, three framed prints.
The room was black with dirt, the floor and the walls spotted with grease, the sideboard and the table sticky with filth; and the stink of a badly kept house took you by the throat.
The only object of luxury now, in the middle of the sideboard, was the rose cardboard box, an old present from Maheu, which Maheude treasured like a jewel.
That was the sideboard; he could last quite two days with that, if he were careful.
The new servant obeyed without a murmur, so as not to be sent away; and as madame usually left the key in the sideboard, Felicite every evening took a small supply of sugar that she ate alone in her bed after she had said her prayers.
She put back into the basket the apricots scattered on the sideboard.
He had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple after another.
In a niche on the left stood a porcelain stove; opposite, a sideboard; then chairs were arranged along the walls, and a round table occupied the centre.
At seven o'clock Madame Raquin lit the fire, set the lamp in the centre of the table, placed a box of dominoes beside it, and wiped the tea service which was in the sideboard.
When it came back, she hid it in a corner of the sideboard.
In the meanwhile, Therese had bent down before the sideboard, and grasping the kitchen knife sought to slip it into one of the large pockets hanging from her waist.
For a few seconds they examined each other, mute and frigid, the husband near the table, the wife stooping down before the sideboard.
CHAPTER IX A DISCOVERY AND A CHASEThe supper was ready laid, the chairs were drawn round the table, bottles, jugs, and glasses were arranged upon the sideboard, and everything betokened the approach of the most convivial period in the whole four-and-twenty hours.
On the sideboard a variety of miscellaneous articles were huddled together, the most conspicuous of which were some very cloudy fish-sauce cruets, a couple of driving-boxes, two or three whips, and as many travelling shawls, a tray of knives and forks, and the mustard.
Ah, sly dog--sly dog!' and he laughed till the glasses on the sideboard rang again.
Very much satisfied with this sudden bringing down of the youth's valour, and this effectual lowering of his tone, Mr. Pickwick rang the bell, and was shown, at his own request, into a private room furnished with a carpet, table, chairs, sideboard and sofa, and ornamented with a looking-glass, and various old prints.
'Dodson and Fogg have taken Mrs. Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job.'No!' exclaimed Perker, putting his hands in his pockets, and reclining against the sideboard.
Will you take a glass of wine, Lowten?''No, thank you, Sir.''You mean yes, I think,' said the little man, turning to the sideboard for a decanter and glasses.
He shot a questioning glance at each of us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair.
He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.
But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your purpose equally well?""Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of relief.
No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive upon the sideboard."
You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are cigars in the box."